Web guru's take on mobile Internet

摘要

There may be all kinds of technology issues, business-plan problems and potential failures to address before the mobile Internet succeeds. For Tim Berners-Lee, however, there's really only one issue. At Mobile Internet World in Boston last week, the man credited with inventing the World Wide Web told a packed hall that the mobile Internet needs to be fully and completely the Internet, nothing more and nothing less. It needs to be free of central control, universal and embodied in open standards. "The Web is an open platform on which you build other things," Berners-Lee said. "That's how you get this innovation.The Web is universal: You can run it on any hardware, on any operating system; it can be used by people of different languages. . . . It's a sandbox where people can [play and] exercise their creativity It's very important to keep the Web universal as we merge the Internet with mobile."